Craigslist is a sponsor, so not all tech companies think that way.

Craigslist isn’t a tech company. It’s a website. Not trying to disrespect them as I’m sure they do some impressive stuff behind the scenes to handle scale, I just don't feel they’re innovating in a way to be called “tech”.

Craiglist was innovative when it started.

Totally agree. I looked it up out of curiosity... 1995. 25 years in tech is basically a lifetime ago. Has it changed much?

They've made it a point to not change, which is frankly refreshing. It works perfectly fine as is for what 99% of people use it for

Not changing and just working is also more innovative than about 99% of tech.

You mean something so popular did not migrate to React and Serverless yet? HOW DOES IT EVEN WORK?!!!

Come on, everyone knows only MongoDB is web scale!

Again, totally agree. But are you arguing that not changing/innovating, while refreshing, should be considered tech? I associate tech with innovation and trying something new. Zero to One.

It seems to me that Craigslist must have made some monumental misjudgment when they didn't expand internationally. I for one, for example, only know of them from hearsay as some kind of obscure US-only classified ads site.

They are international; it's just that outside of the US the quantity of posts is much lower as people use local alternatives.

Also a large portion of craigslist here was just the personals section - once that was shut down there is basically no good reason to use it anymore, as it simply doesn't have the network effect / critical mass of users to sustain itself. The remaining users all seem to be work-related scams of some kind (probably automated) and drug dealers (probably cops).

I still buy and sell all my cars on craigslist, I don't think I've ever dealt cars elsewhere.

Companies with network effects benefit from having literally everyone on the platform, so you don’t need to go to a competitor to communicate with any particular person. That’s why Facebook has a Tor endpoint, so that people in repressive environments can still use it and add to the network effect. The downside is that Tor support does enable harassment on the platform.